Outdoors

  • Teewinot, or, reflections from 48 hours in Grand Teton National Park

    A blog post I wrote originally for ridgeruners.com, republished here In what already feels like another lifetime, I was once a very serious nonfiction writer. This was, much like ultrarunning, something I learned to do to process and understand a childhood in an abusive home, cyclical Appalachian poverty, and why everybody in my kindergarten class called me the little

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  • Ovis Dalli

    Ovis Dalli

    My first published essay, originally appearing in Entropy Mag in 2018. In the basement of my grandparents’ rural Ohio home, back when it was still their home, a dall ram was mounted on the wall opposite the couch in the basement living room. Dall sheep only live in the northwestern portions of Canada and in

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